Winter is here

            Winter has arrived.

Winter, the season with the best weather and best holidays. Maybe it’s because I live in a desert but I love the snow. And Halloween and Christmas have some of the best memories for me. Lets explore the reasons why winter it better than summer.

This is Stuart Heritage’s 4th reason for liking winter.”

“4 Winter is not summer

It isn't summer, when you can't hide your wobbly belly under a big coat. Summer, when men wear socks with sandals or begin marauding topless so everyone can see the badly spelled prison tattoo tribute to their ex. Heatstroke. Discomfort. Summer is the worst. Now, the air is getting crisper. It becomes impossible to breathe amid pints of vaporized commuter sweat on trains. There are log fires. There are ruddy-faced shopkeepers welcoming you with a hearty chuckle. There are hog roasts on every corner. There are probably lots of things I haven't just ripped off from Dickens. Either way, we can all stop pretending to like summer for another nine months. What a relief.” I agree with everything thing in here completely. The intense heat of summer is horrible. Especially if, like me, You don't swim a lot. When you sit inside with friends or on the computer heat is your worst enemy. A fan is all you can do to lessen the heat. You’re in your house so you can’t strip naked without getting yelled at. When in winter you can just put on a jacket and keep rolling. No will give you sideways glances for wearing extra clothing.

One of Brian Moylan reasons for loving winter is:

 

“Snow Days

Snow, itself, is really annoying. Sure, it's nice and pretty when it's falling down and blanketing everything, but it quickly becomes brown, disgusting, and annoying to remove and/or walk around in. But, there is nothing as glorious as getting an unexpected vacation day due to inclement weather. Even if you have to go into work, if the flakes are falling, people are flaking off at the office, fueled by some atavistic enthusiasm about what is happening in the sky. Enjoy it people, because no matter how hot it gets, you still have to go in.” Brian makes a good point of “…no matter how hot it gets, you still have to go in.” Unless you have a stroke you still have to go to school or work. But I disagree with his point that snow is annoying. I love playing in it personally. There’s no other time of the year that you can get snow days besides winter. 

     When you think of summer holidays the only one is The Fourth of July. Fireworks are cool and all but we also get them on new years in winter. Winter has Christmas and Halloween. (Halloween is technically in fall but its close enough.) Christmas where people give you free presents and then all glare at you because you brought them nothing. Or if you’re a kid don’t expect anything from you besides hanging out with the family. Some of my favorite things like my cello and computer I got as Christmas presents. And you get to have hot chocolate (or apple cider in my case) with the family as you watch Frozen for the 50^th time. Then there's Halloween where people give you free candy for wearing a sheet over your head. Even if you’re a teenager people will still give you candy even though they always give a second thought about it. And for the adults there's the Halloween parties where you can dress up and not look weird.

     Winter is just way too superior to summer. Summer has swimming going for it I’ll give it that but it’s not like you can’t do it during winter indoors. You could also go into a Jacuzzi during winter. Summer has it’s ups but way too many downs to be the best season. I’m bringing this up because I love observing in winter. The deafening snow dulls the sounds of the everyday bustle of the city and when you’re out in a forest you can feel like time has stopped and the whole world is standing still except for the snowflakes that fall from the heavens. I’m going to be stopping the observation for now. I may or may not start it back up again. I probably won’t, to be honest, but you never know when I might find something that I think is worth posting to the endless dimension of information that is the internet.

Work Cited

Heritage, Stuart. "Ten Reasons to Love Winter." Theguardian. N.p., 25 Oct. 2013. Web. 21 Dec. 2014.

Moylan, Brian. "10 Things I Love About Winter." Gawker. Kinja, 6 Dec. 2010. Web. 21 Dec. 2014.

Winter's on it's Way

         This week was a cold one. I didn't observe all days of the week because we had a holiday on Tuesday. this week the Puddle was frozen over and most of the trees have lost all their leaves. They look like large sticks poking out of the ground.

There were a lot of geese this week. Their numbers ranged from 0 to somewhere around 50. The one day I didn’t see any I got to school pretty early and I saw that the grass was frosted over. My guess is that the geese wait till the grass defrost to eat it.

        One cool thing I noticed was that the ghost car had frost on his window. This probably means that it gets to the parking lot pretty early. I really want to know how and when it gets to the parking lot and when it leaves. Would I be allowed to put a tracker on it or is that illegal? I don’t really have access to a tracker anyways.

         I have been noticing a decrease in trash lately. I’m not sure what’s causing it but the parking lot has very little trash. It’s mostly filled with the fallen leaves. Less people must be eating their lunch in the parking lot and more in the cafeteria. 

         I wouldn’t mind eating in the cold. I really enjoy the cold and Winter/Fall. I’s way better than Summer because you can keep stacking on layers of cloths if you get cold. When you’re hot you can only strip so much till it becomes illegal. 
"Coming in from the heat is a shitty feeling. It's a wave of cool at first, especially in warm climates where you really do need it. Then it flash-freezes your sweat to your skin like you've been in the ocean, and you smell like scallops, except you haven't been in the water, you've actually just been loafing around town like there's a problem with the Earth's gravity. Fuck, Texas would suck without air conditioning -- good food though. Now compare what we were talking about two sentences ago to the feeling of coming in from the cold. Spies come in from the cold, and James Bond is bad-fucking-ass spy who knows how to ski. When you come inside after a day out in winter's gnarled cryo-clutch, be it a weekend out or a weekday commute, you shake off the cold and it shoots life back into your body. Happiness and feeling return to your fingertips, you get some color in your cheeks, and you are excited to be home and inside. Drink something warm and you crack a more real smile that you just get other times of the year. Then get shitfaced and go back into the cold with even less clothing."
         Swimming is nice but it’s not better than snowboarding or playing in the snow. We use swimming as a way to escape the heat. With snow we play in it even though we are already cold. And the fact that a lot of the bugs leave or they at least become inactive is awesome. I hate mosquitoes buzzing around my head and all the spiders making webs in the house. Then you also get to have apple cider and have Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving.  They are all the best holidays. In the Spring/Summer we only have Easter and the 4^th of July. So I’m super happy getting to school early and looking at my breath freeze in midair as I see the beautiful leaves fall from the trees.

Work Cited

Crumb, Alex. "The 10 Vital Reasons Why Winter is Better than Summer."

     http://www.ghostlittle.com: Critically Continually Thinking. N.p. 2014. Web. 4 Dec. 2014.